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Jean-Louis Gassée / Monday Note:
The OS Doesn't Matter... Once upon a time, operating systems used to matter a lot; they defined what a computer could and couldn't do. The “old” OS orchestrated the use of resources: memory, processors, I/O (input/output) to external devices (screen, keyboard, disks, network, printers...).
Leena Rao / TechCrunch:
Opening Weekend: The Social Network Tops Box Office With $23 Million In Ticket Sales — This probably isn't too surprising. The Social Network, which had received overwhelmingly positive reviews from critics, topped the box office opening weekend with $23 million in ticket sales …
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Jose Antonio Vargas / The Huffington Post:
The Social Disconnect — How Hollywood Misread Facebook — What's Your Reaction: … Everything that's wrong about The Social Network is summed up by its title. — The movie, opening nationwide today, is not interested in the concept of social networking or the actual usage of Facebook.
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Sean Hollister / Engadget:
Confirmed: Windows Phone 7 launches October 11th in New York City, and T-Mobile's on board — If there was any scrap of doubt in your mind, we'll obliterate it for you right now — October 11th is the day Windows Phone 7 will be unveiled in the US, not just at a fancy London event …
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Nick Wingfield / Wall Street Journal:
Ballmer Talks Windows Phone 7 — Microsoft Corp. has struggled for the past two years in the mobile-phone market. But CEO Steve Ballmer says his company finally has a compelling story. — On Oct. 11, Microsoft and its partners plan to announce the initial wave of handsets that will use Windows Phone 7 …
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Randall Stross / New York Times:
What Steve Jobs Learned in the Wilderness — THE saga of Steven P. Jobs is so well known that it has entered the nation's mythology: he's the prodigal who returned to Apple in 1997, righted a listing ship and built it into one of the most valuable companies in the world.
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Fortune, MacStories, Gizmodo and TUAW, Thanks:rawmeet
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Sean Parker, Leo Apotheker and “lazy journalism” — The College of Cardinals was sending out dark smoke signals for weeks. But when the white smoke finally came out and the bells chimed announcing a consensus candidate, the press went “whoa!” They should have been in Rome covering the Papal Conclave …
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Dennis Howlett / Irregular Enterprise Blog:
Hey Larry (Ellison), worry about your own stuff before firing barbs — Larry Ellison, CEO Oracle didn't take long before opining on Leo Apotheker's appointment as CEO H-P. … Such comments are both totally predictable and stand in sharp contrast to Apotheker's gracious response to the Red Stack threat.
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Sarah Lacy / TechCrunch:
If Web 1.0's Kryptonite Was the Bust, Web 2.0 Kryptonite Was the Grind — There were two surreal moments for me at Disrupt last week. The first was during the SV Angels Party when Hammer was dancing. It wasn't just because MC-Freaking-Hammer was doing to Hammer dance in a tux and nerd glasses in front of me.
Sean Hollister / Engadget:
Verizon agrees to refund customers $90 million for wrongful data charges — Did you have a Verizon phone sans data plan, but get billed for data anyhow? Verizon Wireless is dropping $90 million to make things right next month. The New York Times reports that the company …
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Jacqui Cheng / Ars Technica:
iPhone user privacy at risk from apps that transmit personal info — The user data collected by some iOS apps can be correlated to real-world identities, posing a privacy risk to iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad users. According to research from Bucknell University, a majority of iOS apps transmit user data back to their own servers.
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Eric / pskl.us:
iPhone Applications & Privacy Issues: An Analysis of Application …
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Mary Jo Foley / All about Microsoft Blog:
Surface computing + augmented reality = Microsoft LightSpace — Microsoft is looking to extend its surface-computing work into the spatial-computing arena with a new research project known as LightSpace. — Andy Wilson, a Microsoft research who was key in bringing the Microsoft Surface tabletop to market …
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Chad Catacchio / The Next Web:
New Twitter.com has rate limits too — Remember when we told you that the new Twitter.com was re-engineered to use its own APIs? Well, apparently Twitter also decided to set a rate-limit for usage on Twitter.com as well. That's right, I just got shut down for using Twitter.com too much within an hour.
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